Europeans! Do you have a 'best practice' for citing authors whose names are spelled differently on the title pages of different works? This is common with researchers from Scandinavia, Russia(-aev, -ayev, -aiev), Germany (ß vs. ss, ue vs. ü), or the Arab world ... I feel like I should normalize the spellings #citationPractices

I'm looking for literature (articles, blog posts, books) that covers "succession planning" for IT/sysadmin in activist groups. Like, for a volunteer group, what happens if your IT person just leaves? What are best practices so that the group isn't locked out of their web hosting etc (simply through lack of information rather than malice on the previous IT person's fault)

I have just been asked to review something that I reviewed before at another journal. A diff suggests that the paper is identical. My report will be too, I think. I'm not convinced that this is working.

I've been considering a VPN & have got a headache researching them. I know that I should NOT trust free VPNs, but even among paid services, things are murky. So far, VyperVPN, ExpressVPN are at the top of my list. Does anyone have any thoughts, recommendations, warnings they like to share?

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